Neat project: add pointer capability to std.bitmanip.bitfields

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Dec 2 11:59:14 PST 2015


On 12/02/2015 02:54 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 19:39:47 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Once done, this is a fantastic example of (a) the power of generative
>> programming, and (b) the advantages of using library facilities
>> instead of built-in features.
>>
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15397
>>
>> Who would want to take it?
>
> Warning, this is very unsafe and incompatible with the GC. Bit-twiddling
> GC pointers can lead to memory corruption and very hard-to-track bugs.
> Such a feature must be opt-in in a very explicit way.

Well it's @system. -- Andrei




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